It's Always This Beautiful, I Just Can't Always See It, by Codi Barbini

Prose poetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features. In It’s Always This Beautiful, I Just Can’t Always See It, gratitude becomes a medium through which Barbini reflects on memory, love, recovery, beauty and grief. It’s Always This Beautiful, I Just Can’t Always See It, is a love letter to being alive. Codi Barbini is an artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited at A+D Museum, SCOPE Art Show, OVNi Objectif Video Nice, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, The Annenberg Space for Photography and published in the LA Times, WePresent, Artillery Magazine, Dazed, and Flaunt Magazine among others. Her feature documentary, The New Normal, is available to stream through Amazon Prime. It’s Always This Beautiful, I Just Can’t Always See It is her first book of writing.